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pixl97 • yesterday at 7:19 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

The post above yours shows how many people had a difficult time seeing past human scale. A bacteria has a very simple goal system yet bacteria have killed billions over the centuries.


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apsurd • today at 12:53 AM

You are right. We should also hold other threats to humanity: war, meteors, pandemics.

I'm obviously pointing out the (unsubstantiated) exceptional threat that we're all seemingly worried about: that ASI requires alignment because it'll otherwise cause the end of humanity.